Posts from February, 2011
- 18 Feb
by Global Ministries
No commentsUpdate from the David Datema Family
Dave and Cathie Datema are endorsed missionaries serving with the US Center for World Mission in Pasadena, Calif. Dave is General Director of Frontier Mission Fellowship, an umbrella organization for a variety of related ministries. Here are some pieces of their February 16 newsletter. Dave is still working on the challenge of leading Frontier Mission [...]
- 18 Feb
by HU News
No commentsHU Announces Next Year’s Tuition Costs
Huntington University’s annual tuition is nearly $5,000 below the national average, and the modest increase approved for next year will help keep Huntington among the region’s best values. The Board of Trustees approved a moderate increase of 3.9 percent for tuition and fees for the 2011-12 school year. That comes to $22,710, with $500 in [...]
- 18 Feb
by News
No commentsRenew Communities Set to Go Public
Renew Communities, a church plant in the greater Cleveland, Ohio, area, is less than a month away from holding weekly gatherings. They are advertising that they will begin meeting March 13, at 10:30 am, at the Polaris Career Center in Middleburg Heights, Ohio. Andy Sikora is the church planter for Renew Communities. And according to [...]
- 17 Feb
by Global Ministries
No comments2011 Nicaragua National Conference
Nicaragua National Conference held its annual meeting in January, with guests coming from Honduras and Costa Rica. Rev. Erik Rojas (far right), church planter and head of our mission field in Costa Rica, served as guest speaker, and Rev. Juanita Chavez (left of Rev. Rojas), superintendent for Honduras, attended as a guest. We currently have [...]
- 17 Feb
by Healthy Ministry Resources
No commentsEmail Contacts with the National Office
We’ve been having email problems at the national office, the result of some mischief from a Nigerian spammer. To counter that, we are migrating all of our email offsite to Google Apps. If you have sent email to someone with an @ub.org extension, your email may have bounced back to you. Hopefully, this will all [...]
- 16 Feb
by Global Ministries
No commentsNew Assignment for Phil and Darlene Burkett
Philip and Darlene Burkett, known across the denomination for their missionary service in Macau and for their musical talents, are leaving us. At the beginning of March, Phil will become senior pastor of Cass City Missionary Church in Cass City, Mich. Phil and Darlene, along with Luke and Audrey Fetters, left for the Orient in [...]
- 16 Feb
by UB Church in Canada
No commentsA UB Connection to a Grammy Winner
Brian Magnus, writing as pastor of Parkwood Gardens UB church in Guelph, Ontario (he’s also Bishop of the UB Church in Canada), sent this note: “Tim Kingsbury, bassist of the Album of the Year Grammy Award winning band, Arcade Fire, grew up in and learned to play the bass guitar right here at Parkwood Gardens UB Church [...]
- 15 Feb
by Ministers
2 commentsAnthony Blair Named President of Myerstown Seminary
Anthony L. Blair, an ordained UB minister, has been named President of Evangelical Theological Seminary in Myerstown, Pa. He was selected by a unanimous vote of the seminary’s board of trustees, and will take office July 1. Blair, 46, is co-senior pastor of a non-denominational church called Hosanna! A Fellowship of Christians, and teaches in [...]
- 11 Feb
by Jeff Bleijerveld
No commentsObit: Marie Simbo, Mother of Billy Simbo
Mrs. Marie Simbo, mother of Rev. Billy Simbo, passed away February 11, 2011, in Sierra Leone. She was 84 years old. Rev. Simbo, who concluded his transition role as bishop of Sierra Leone Conference in January, delayed his return to the States in case she passed away, knowing he would need to abruptly return. However, [...]
- 10 Feb
by News
No commentsGot Any Old UB Hymals to Donate?
Do you have some of the old maroon 1973 United Brethren hymnals sitting around somewhere? We occasionally receive requests for that hymnal. Most recently, The Village of Laurel Run (formerly Piney Mountain Home, once operated by Mid-Atlantic Conference) expressed interest in some. Lois Culler writes, “I go there and play the piano and I have [...]
